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"Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes."

Joseph Priestley

Marriage

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness."

Julia Cameron

Art and Culture

Human

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."

Immanuel Kant

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them."

Kin Hubbard

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"There are more fools in the world than there are people."

Heinrich Heine

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same."

E. B. White

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is."

Jean Anouilh "The Lark"

God and Religion

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."

Maxim Gorky

Happiness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"One does not learn how to die by killing others."

Chateaubriand-Francois-Rene-de

Law and Crime

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings."

Gérard Depardieu

Defeates and Mistakes

Truth and Falsity

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful."

Gustave Flaubert

History and Nations

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy."

Robert Anthony

Happiness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Men are what their mothers made them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Conduct of Life"

Family and Loneliness

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye."

English Proverbs

Marriage

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."

Woodrow Lyle Wyatt "To the Point"

Love

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"It is always the best policy to speak the truth - unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."

Jerome K. Jerome

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point."

Winston Churchill

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"My speciality is being right when other people are wrong."

George Bernard Shaw "You Never Can Tell"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty."

Aldous Huxley "Do What You Will"

Manners and Ethics

Trust

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted."

Helen Rowland "A Guide to Men"

Love

Marriage

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."

Amiel-Henri-Frederic "Journal Intime"

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the Gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision."

Norman Mailer

Courage and Fear

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing."

Joseph Conrad

Human

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Love is the answer - but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."

Woody Allen

Love

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."

Christopher Morley "Thunder on the Left"

Life and Death

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers."

William Somerset Maugham "A Writer's Notebook"

Intellect, Judgement

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"God does not play dice with the universe."

Albert Einstein

God and Religion

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do."

P.J. O`Rourke

Good and Evil

Human

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The situation of our youth is not mysterious. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models."

James Baldwin "Nobody Knows My Name"

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."

Swedish Proverbs

Joy and Sadness

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have."

Gerald Ford

Authority, Government

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other."

Philip Guedalla "Supers and Supermen"

History and Nations

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."

Ayn Rand

Joy and Sadness

Life and Death

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!"

May Sarton

Law and Crime

Love

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"There's no business like show business."

Irving Berlin

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."

Stefan Zweig "Stellar Moments in Human History"

History and Nations

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Church is the only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members."

Archbishop William Temple

God and Religion

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."

Mark Kennedy

Science and Technology

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"As many heads as many wits."

Scottish Proverbs

Wisdom and Stupidity

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Men willingly believe what they wish."

Julius Caesar

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Mark Twain

Success and Fame

Talent and Genius

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth."

Benjamin Disraeli

Oration and Silence

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."

Karl Kraus

Education

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness

Pain and Tears

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him."

Carl Gustav Jung

Art and Culture

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)